A little Python script to download audio files from RSS feeds and put them somewhere so that your music server can grab them. Has been tested on two (2) feeds.

Installation

Dependencies are managed with uv so install that if you haven't already.

autoradio uses pycurl to do downloads, because it does a bunch of the fiddly stuff around redirects, but pycurl itself can be fiddly to install. On a Raspberry Pi I had to manually install the following packages first using apt:

libssl-dev
libcurl4-openssl-dev
python3-dev

Then:

> git clone https://git.tilde.town/bombinans/autoradio.git
> cd autoradio
> uv run autoradio.py --help
> uv run autoradio.py

To add feeds, edit the config.json file.

Config

The config file is JSON as follows:

{
    "feeds": {
        "Utility Fog": {
            "url": "https://www.frogworth.com/utilityfog/feed/",
            "dir": "/media/pi/Storage/Music/Utility Fog"
        },
        "RA Podcast": {
            "url": "https://ra.co/xml/podcast.xml",
            "dir": "/media/pi/Storage/Music/RA_Podcast"
        }
    },
    "max": 10
}

Each feed has a URL and a directory where the files will be downloaded. If a file with the same name is already present, it won't be re-downloaded.

The value in "max" is the number of entries to look at from each feed, starting from the latest. The script parses the RSS feed and looks for links which seem likely to contain audio and tries to fetch them using pycurl (this handles things like redirects, hopefully).

Running automatically

You will probable want to set up a cron job to run the script on a regular schedule: all you need to change for this is provide full paths to everything, including uv. Here's an example where the script is installed in the home directory of the user pi under ~/working/autoradio

1 1 * * * /home/pi/.local/bin/uv /home/pi/working/autoradio.py --config /home/pi/working/autoradio/config.json